Nellis AFB

I am TAD out here for about 6 weeks.

1. This gym is amazing, I have never seen anything like this. It is new, only a couple years old.
2. A lot of running tracks and trails spread around, nice since I am still on east coast time and waking up about 0300.
3. The whole facility is nicer than most military bases I have seen.
4. Still trying to find local (non-casino or chain restaurants) to eat at.

The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

1. This gym is amazing, I have never seen anything like this. It is new, only a couple years old.
2. A lot of running tracks and trails spread around, nice since I am still on east coast time and waking up about 0300.
3. The whole facility is nicer than most military bases I have seen.
4. Still trying to find local (non-casino or chain restaurants) to eat at.

I haven't been there in many years but it used to be that the casinos offer some of the best food in Vegas.

I'm from, and currently live in, the area (Henderson). I only get out to that part of the valley when I go to Nellis to pick up prescriptions and routine doctor visits, so I don't get out to that part of town very often (it's about 20 minutes on the freeway). It's a great time to be here as the weather is making the change from summer to winter. If you have any questions I'll do my best to answer (being away for 20 years affected my knowledge of the area as it grew during my time in the AF).

Viva Zapatas on Craig just before reaching the I-15 when driving west from Nellis is the only place on that corner of town that I know of that fits the bill for for good and non-chain near Nellis. I don't get to that end of town very often and it is usually zipping down there for a meeting and quickly leaving so I am not as familiar with it as I was a few years ago.

There are a lot of good places to eat in Summerlin and and a few in Boulder City (the pork chili verde at the Coffee Cup is worth the trip) that fit the bill. I don't make it to the Strip or Henderson very often but Pizza Rock near the Fremont Street Experience is good stuff if you are heading downtown.

I work on Nellis. Go to Memphis BBQ outside the gate, the Mexican Restaurant on Craig before you hit I15, or Robertos on Craig for delicious breakfast burritos. If you like pizza, Grimaldi's is the best, but you need to go to the strip, Henderson or Summerlin for that.

Overall the exercise went well, worked a lot and we got 1 down day in 19 so hit the strip, saw David Copperfield, ate at a buffett, got some ice cream and wandered back.

I was a bit professionally disappointed that the senior enlisted sent from the command seemed more interested in socializiing that there was a $5 all you could drink bar there on site as opposed to asking about how the crew we took out there was doing (getting meals, adequate lodging, exercising their skills & getting training etc.) I verbalized this as the final item in my AAR to the 3-star, was asked about it earlier today and expressed I thought it was shitty leadership on her part from the Headquarters section ... will see if I hear anything further.

The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.